Minister without portfolio responsible for innovation and technological development of the Republic of Serbia Nenad Popovic paid an official visit to the State of Israel December 23-25, 2017. During the visit he had separate meetings with the Minister of Science, Technology and Space Ofir Akunis, Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yuval Rotem, heads of the Israel Innovation Authority, research center Volcani of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Bar-Ilan University, as well as the representatives of some of the leading companies of the IT sector. During the visit Minister Popovic has also visited The Holocaust Memorial Complex Yad Vashem where he laid a wreath.

Ministers Popovic and Akunis agreed upon signing the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the fields of innovation and digital economy between the two countries, as well as setting up an Intergovernmental Committee for cooperation. Both sides assessed the meeting as very important for the further development of innovational and technological cooperation between Serbia and Israel.